From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Farkas Levente <lfarkas-lWVWdrzSO4GHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: FYI: fixing Vista networking with rtl8139 + KVM
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:38:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FB7A0E.3080801@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46FB731E.8000907-lWVWdrzSO4GHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
Farkas Levente wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>
>> A Fedora user reported that Vista networking isn't working with KVM[1] and
>> pointed to the Wiki
>>
>> http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Vista_Networking_Workaround
>>
>> FYI, a patch from Xen was merged into upstream QEMU to fix this problem
>> with rtl8139 a week or two back and works nicely with KVM+Vista...
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel-qX2TKyscuCcdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org/msg11365.html
>>
>> ..avoiding need for messing around with ne2k drivers as mentioned in the wiki
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dan.
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=308201
>>
>
> does this means that in general use the ne2k driver is a better choice?
> anyway is there a suggested network driver for the guests?
>
>
No, it means I need to merge qemu-cvs.
rtl8139 performs faster than ne2000.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-27 3:19 FYI: fixing Vista networking with rtl8139 + KVM Daniel P. Berrange
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2007-09-27 9:08 ` Farkas Levente
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2007-09-27 9:38 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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2007-09-27 9:41 ` Laurent Vivier
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2007-09-27 9:56 ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-27 13:43 ` Daniel P. Berrange
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